If you get clear the checkpoint but get arrested, don’t count on Twitter to be on your side when the gub’ment goes looking for any incriminating tweets. Twitter lost its white hat status last week when it gave up its fight against a subpoena: Twitter Gives Occupy Protester’s Tweets to U.S. Judge.

Can the government hold you in indefinite detention for “substantially” or “directly” providing “support” to forces such as al-Qaida or the Taliban? “That is no small question bandied about amongst lawyers and a judge steeped in arcane questions of constitutional law;” wrote U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest this past Wednesday, “It is a question of defining an individual’s core liberties.” Judge Forrest in Hedges vs. Obamareaffirmed an earlier ruling where she had already said no, the prohibition in Section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act on providing material support to terrorist groups is so vague that it violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech. The gub’ment immediately appealed.

Bipartisanship when it comes to national security may not that big a deal, though, according to this very good piece in Commonweal on Two Parties, One Policy: Washington’s New Consensus on Terrorism. Ritika Singh, a regular on lawfareblog.com, breaks down how “the two major political parties have converged on the substance of many of the key questions [regarding the law around terrorism] while continuing to speak in the public domain as though a great gulf separates them.”

After 22 hearings, 15 Member briefings, 7 site visits, the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Transportation Security had a few things to say about the federal gub’ment’s least popular (and the competition is stiff) agency. The majority staff report Rebuilding TSA Into a Smarter, Leaner Organization recommends minimizing pat-downs by expanding the PreCheck program, reducing the TSA workforce by expanding opportunities for the private sector, and both increasing (for flight schools) and decreasing (for truck drivers) oversight.

And finally, respect to the poor bureaucrat assigned to write a press release announcing something too secret to announce. NRO’s Secret NROL-36 Payload Launches is a very short press release because what’s in that National Reconnaissance Office payload launched into space last Thursday is, well, secret.